Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prolonged exposure of an individual to a particularly traumatic event or a series of traumatic events has long-lasting imp

Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prolonged exposure of an individual to a particularly traumatic event or a series of traumatic events has long-lasting impacts on the individual’s psychology and affects his/her social and emotional behavior. Sadness and anxiety are common effects of a traumatic experience. They wear off with time and an individual starts enjoying life as usual. However, there are certain times when an individual finds the trauma so overwhelming that he/she cannot come out of it. The individual keeps experiencing a continuous stream of painful memories and danger which does not fade.

People generally associate PTSD with soldiers that are emotionally scarred as a result of participating in battles. A vast majority of men suffering from PTSD have participated in a military combat, though the condition of PTSD can result from any experience in life that is too overwhelming, unpredictable, and uncontrollable for an individual to bear. PTSD can affect all people who have witnessed the traumatic experience one way or the other. PTSD affects people who have personally participated in the event, people who have been affected by the event, the law enforcement officers, and the emergency workers who reach the battlefield to collect pieces. Not only the people immediately involved in the traumatic event are exposed to the risk of developing the PTSD, but also others that are associated or related with them in some way may suffer from the PTSD. PTSD takes different durations to start in different cases. Accordingly, the duration for which it lasts also varies from one case to another. In certain cases, people develop PTSD in few hours or days after experiencing the traumatic event. In other cases, symptoms of the PTSD may take months or years to show up. Traumatic events which are the most common causes of the PTSD include but are not limited to experience of participation in a war or battle, natural disaster including flood pr drought, car or plane accidents, terrorist attacks, rape, sexual abuse, bullying, immediate death of a relative or friend, kidnapping, assault, bullying, incest, and neglect during childhood.